Operation Ice:
Melting the Heart of Man

Greenland’s Inuit people have been living on the ice for thousands of years, but in the winter of 1963, they noticed glaciers melting in the winter for the first time. Decades later, a team of NASA scientists would be the first to prove that Greenland’s ice sheet was, in fact, melting.

In 2017, during a time of unprecedented change in the Earth’s climate, Drew Denny embedded with NASA’s Operation IceBridge scientists in Greenland to help the world understand how ice melt impacts people around the globe. Highlighting the connection between melting ice caps and extreme weather events, including the unprecedented hurricanes that occurred that year, Operation Ice: Melting the Heart of Man documents the calamities catalyzed by human-caused climate change and begs viewers to pay attention - despite the fact that the Trump administration had stricken the words “climate change” from all official documents and web sites and even barred the scientists in this film from using the phrase.